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It makes NO SENSE to come up to someone you don't know and ask that immediately.
Stop Making Sense.
Do "theatrics" mean anything to you?
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It will usually only work because the girl knows you're hitting on her and is just giving you some slack because she likes you.
And your problem with that is...?
1. I don't mean that the flow of the conversation has to be logical and make sense. My humour can be very zany and off the wall, and I'll often I'll cut a thread and shift topics out of the blue. BUT, before I do any of that I have to establish some rapport with whoever I'm speaking with. What I mean about "making sense" is that, if you approach in a really weird way, you will get the "WHY is this guy talking to me?" look, and your FIRST IMPRESSION will be "this guy is weird." All your future actions are interpreted in light of people's first impression of you, and it's really difficult to overcome an initially poor first impression.
For example, if two people are described as follows:
(A) Confident, zany, high energy, crazy, in your face
(B) Weird, zany, high energy, crazy, in your face
then people will form a better opinion of THE SAME PERSON when given description (A) before they meet them than description (B), just because the first word is different and everything gets filtered through that.
Now, you CAN start a conversation with someone by asking them advice about your friend's 6 month relationship with his girlfriend. But I'm telling you, more often than not, even if the girl likes you, in the back of her mind she's thinking "why did he come over here to ask me this?" This is NOT a good first impression to give off. Because it either subcommunicates
i. You are just a random guy who isn't that good at talking with people and may have few friends, so you're asking advice because you're not socially adept
ii. You are interested in her romantically, but are not confident enough to express that honestly, so you're using a flimsy excuse to start a conversation
either one isn't great.
2. Looking at (ii) we can see why your second point is bad. If a girl is talking to you anyway because she's cutting you slack as she's attracted to you, despite the fact that she knows you were using an excuse to do so, then one of the first character traits she's picked up on is that you are SHY.
If you were CONFIDENT (women's number 1 attractive personality trait), then you would have just come up to her and told her you found her attractive and wanted to get to know her. If she were already attracted to you initially, then she would be even MORE so now.
If she WEREN'T attracted to you initially, and you came with your flimsy excuse for a conversation starter, then she probably wouldn't give you the benefit of the doubt, and say something like "why are you asking me?" which you'd then interpret as a "shit test" and spend 20 minutes doing cocky-funny comebacks and ploughing before realising you'd never get anywhere. If you came up and opened directly, you'd spend 1 minute being blown out and you could move on to a new set.